Paolo Melchiorre

14 videos · 13 events · 2019–2026 · 6h 49m of video

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The Django UUID Story

DjangoCon US 2026 · October 26, 2026

My first larger contribution to Django started during the sprints at DjangoCon Europe 2017 in Florence, where I worked on exposing database-side RandomUUID generation for UUIDv4 in contrib.postgres, so for me this topic has a very personal history inside the project.

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Django's GeneratedField by example

DjangoCon US 2025 · November 6, 2025

Paolo Melchiorre explains Django’s GeneratedField, introduced in Django 5.0, as a database-managed field whose deterministic expression is recalculated from other columns and kept in sync without Python code or triggers. Through examples using SQLite, PostgreSQL, and GeoDjango, he shows generated areas, prices, statuses, concatenated names,…

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